At the June Business meeting, President Stephanie presented a cheque for £300 to Girl Guide Katie Dutta towards her trip to Latvia in October. Katie was very grateful. “Girlguiding Overseas Linked with Development” (GOLD) is a sustainable community development project which works with Guiding Associations across the world to help grow Guiding and address issues concerning young women in those countries. GOLD Latvia 2015 is the 4th year of the project in Latvia, and will help to grow Guiding through skills development for Leaders and younger members, and helping to develop the Ranger programme for members aged 16+. Katie Dutta has been selected to join the team going to Latvia in 2016 and she is working hard to fundraise for her trip. Also this week, President Stephanie and Barbara visited the Soroptimist marquee at the Cheshire Show. The Soroptimist stand featured the “Stop the Trafficking Gift

President Stephanie and five members of SI Llandudno were warmly welcomed by President Anne and members of SI Bangor to their 67th Charter Luncheon, held at Seiont Manor Hotel, Llanrug, on Sunday 21st June. The Guest speaker was Ian Mackenzie, representing “Teams4u”, and he spoke about the annual delivery of lorry loads of shoeboxes filled with useful items for the needy children in Romania at Christmas. A very moving video showed the children’s delight on receiving the boxes.

The Laburnum Arch looking magnificent – Llandudno Soroptimists on their walk around Bodnant Gardens on Saturday 6th June. Photographer and Guide to the Gardens was fellow Soroptimist Barbara, who is a volunteer gardener for the National Trust at Bodnant. President Stephanie, Celia, Janet and Elizabeth were fortunate to see the Gardens in the beautiful June sunshine!

The May Regional Meeting was held at Theatre Clwyd in Mold on Saturday 30th May. Llandudno Club members were the “meeters and greeters” and they also ran a stall during the coffee and lunch breaks. Our Programme Action groups, led by Elaine, had put together a “Fair Trade” raffle, which was well supported by members from all the other clubs. We raised £164 towards the Women’s Refuge and Bees project. That was a fanastic amount to raise. Here are President Elect Helen and Vice President Elaine at our stall:

On hearing news of the two earthquakes in Nepal, President Stephanie organised a special raffle to raise funds to help the victims of this tragedy. The winner of the raffle was given a flower arrangement in the colours of her choice, expertly arranged by Barbara. We raised £100 for the Nepal Earthquake Appeal by selling raflle tickets to club members and by generous donations. Here we can see President Stephanie presenting the flowers to Sandra at our May Business meeting.

On 28th April, Presidents Pat & Stephanie were accompanied by several members of SI Llandudno to Eaton Hall for Afternoon Tea and entertainment. This was a celebration of SI Wrexham’s 80th Anniversary.

On Saturday 25th April 2015, members of SI Llandudno and SI Bangor braved the elements for a walk along by the sea and the nature reserve at Llanfairfechan, followed by a well-deserved cup of coffee.

On April 23rd, we celebrated another successful year at the Annual General Meeting and congratulated President Pat for arranging the interesting and enjoyable programme of events and meetings.